DisinfoDocket 26 January

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Highlights

WATCH - Analysing the Minneapolis shooting frame by frame (BBC, 25 January)

1. Minnesota’s prisons had to launch a website to correct ‘inaccurate’ arrest info from Trump’s DHS (The Independent, 26 January)
2. Residents in Venezuela describe climate of fear and uncertainty after Maduro’s fall (France24, 26 January)
3. Ireland plans law allowing law enforcement to use spyware (The Record, 22 January)
4. Activist warns of ‘propaganda’ as CSIS officials tout agency’s new approach to Indigenous people (CBC, 26 January)

1. Academia & Research

1. WeDefense: A Toolkit to Defend Against Fake Audio (arXiv, 21 January)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. Regulators Are Going After Grok and X — Just Not Together (Tech Policy Press, 26 January)
2. Google agrees to pay $68 million to settle voice recording lawsuit (The Record, 26 January)

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. Lavrov’s 2026 presser: a three-hour FIMI offensive against Europe and its leaders (EUvsDisinfo, 23 January)
2. Meduza breaks down the debate over Europe’s new platform for dialogue with Russian anti-war, pro-democracy forces (Meduza, 26 January)